I'd just like to point out that throwing around words like 'irresponsible' and talking smack about doing 80mph on surface roads, on Supraforums of all places, the 20+ year home of 1000+hp fucking street cars with A/C, is some pretty fantastic bullshit if not straight up hypocrisy.
It's objectively 'irresponsible' to play the games we play with these cars. Responsible is a Prius and never doing more than 5 over. We mitigate risks and do a better job of calling the wind and the weather than this guy did in most cases, sure, but we still take similar risks every time we enjoy these cars, we just do better at stacking the odds in our favor.
But regardless of the odds and making better tire choices/time and place choices/etc - we're enjoying these cars outside of the envelope of what the evening news, police reports, and Suzy Soccermom would call 'responsible'. So every single one of us should check our own bullshit at the door when it comes to this.
Yes, it sucks that it happened to a customer's car. It really sucks that the car was such a beautiful Supra. It sucks that there's a lot of contributing factors to this incident which likely include ignorance of the T1 Torsen's twitchiness, really poor tire selection, cold pavement, and a probable lack of driver skill.... spoiler alert; virtually every person on this forum has more car than they do driving skill, myself included.
So let's all take a moment to consider what it'd feel like if this shit had happened to us.
If you've never had your car scare the shit out of you unexpectedly, you're not driving it. If you were lucky enough to save it and all that got ruined was your undies, consider yourself lucky. Not everyone is so lucky. Fast car hot rod shit happens, and sometimes you roll the dice and the dice fuck you.
Sometimes you don't even know you're rolling the dice - a good friend of mine died on a motorcycle doing ~3mph UNDER the speed limit and obeying all the traffic laws, because a safe driver discount doesn't change physics when a great-grandmother in a coupe deville pulls out of a bank parking lot right in front of you.
With all that in mind, consider how absolutely fucking counterproductive it is, in every possible way, to just keep dogpiling this guy and talking hypocritical smack.
Trust and believe he's paying the fucking piper with local LE and with insurance and with the owner of the car.
So let's keep this thread on topic with the facts and relevant discussion of good lessons and takeaways for the rest of the folks wanting to avoid something like this.
Let's not turn it into another sanctimonious circle-jerk of delusional assholes pretending they're pro-level drivers and never get anything wrong. There's more than enough of that shit all over the 'socials'.
